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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 18 days ago — Poll: Public Opposes Afghanistan Surge, Split On Obama's Decision-Making A new CNN poll finds that only 40% of Americans favor the war in Afghanistan, with 58% opposing it. American also do not support sending more troops to Afghanistan, by a ...

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/14/2009 — Hillary Clinton Calls For Political Freedom In Russia Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at Moscow STate University, calling for human rights and political freedom in Russia. "In an innovative society, people must be free to take unpopular ...

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/26/2009 — White House To Rein In 'Too Big To Fail' Institutions The New York Times reports that the Obama administration is set to bring out new proposals for dealing with "too big to fail" institutions, with increased regulations for preventing failure: ...

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/6/2009 — Gates: "We're Not Leaving Afghanistan" In an interview with CNN, held jointly with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates bluntly declared that "we're not leaving Afghanistan." He explained: "There should be no ...

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/7/2009 — Poll: Obama's Approval Rating Going Back Up The new AP/GfK poll finds that President Obama has a 56% approval rating, up from 50% in September -- and the first time that his approval rating has increased in the AP/GfK surveys. Disapproval is at 39%, ...

The McChrystal letter
pajamasmedia.com 10/11/2009 — The Wall Street Journal says Secretary Gates has passed on a request for more men for the Afghan campaign from General McChrystal. Gates had attempted to delay the formal transmission, but mounting public interest in the issue made it pointless to ...

HEY, JOE, WHERE YOU DOING WITH THAT GUN IN YOUR HAND?
amygdalagf.blogspot.com 10/20/2009 — HEY, JOE, WHERE YOU DOING WITH THAT GUN IN YOUR HAND? On Friday night's PBS Newshour , Tom Bearden gave the following report from Fort Carson:   ( Audio-only , if you have bandwidth issues.  Click the above link for a transcript.) I ...

The other side of the mountain (part one)
mudvillegazette.com 10/12/2009 — Talking point: al-Qaeda is in Pakistan . And we spend $30 in Afghanistan for every dollar in Pakistan. That's from Fareed Zakaria's Washington Post piece , but I've heard it parroted on the TeeVee News several times today - along with the statement - delivered straight-faced - that ...

It's all a big circle for the Democrats
powerlineblog.com 10/29/2009 — Senator John Kerry seems to be emerging as President Obama's go-to person for foreign policy advice on critical issues. This must be rather galling for Vice President Biden and especially Secretary of State Clinton. Biden at least gets to trot out ...

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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 30 days ago — Hillary Criticizes Pakistan On Terrorism Fight Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized Pakistan's performance in fighting terrorists, telling a group of Pakistani journalists that she thought it was "hard to believe that nobody in your ...

Clinton charm offensive runs into suspicions in Pakistan — Reuters: Politics 10/29/2009
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Pakistan charm offensive rolled into a wall of suspicion at one of the country's top universities on Thursday as students drilled her on whether America was truly ready to be a ...

Obama attends return of fallen troops from Afghanistan — CNN Political Ticker 10/29/2009
Embedded video from CNN Video (CNN) - The flag-draped cases of 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware early Thursday, in a solemn event attended by President Obama. Also in attendance for the transfer ...

Obama at Dover: Witnessing the Cost of War — WSJ.com: Washington Wire 10/29/2009
Associated Press President Barack Obama salutes as soldiers carry a flag-draped case containing the remains of Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin of Terre Haute, Ind., from a cargo plane to a white van at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., before ...

Official: Homemade bombs pose worldwide threat (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 10/29/2009
AP - A senior military official says the use of homemade bombs extends well beyond Afghanistan and Iraq, making the weapons a global problem that requires an international solution.

HRC to Pakistan: Get real — First Read 10/29/2009
From NBC's Andrea Mitchell Hillary Clinton , buffeted by tough questions for two days about the U.S. influence on Pakistan's military, said today she finds it hard to believe that no one in Pakistan's government knows where al Qaeda is -- ...